Venus as muse : : from Lucretius to Michel Serres / / edited by Hanjo Berressem, Gunter Blamberger, Sebastian Goth ; cover illustration, Kathrin Roussel ; contributors, Elizabeth Asmis [and twelve others].

• Superior document: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, Volume 182
• TeilnehmendeR: Berressem, Hanjo,; Blamberger, Günter,; Goth, Sebastian,; Roussel, Kathrin,; Asmis, Elizabeth,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill Rodopi,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; Volume 182.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (282 pages).
• Other title: Preliminary material /; VENUS AS MUSE: A Contradictory Thought-Image? /; VENUS ANADYOMENE: The Birth of Art /; VENUS AND THE PASSION FOR RENEWAL IN LUCRETIUS’S ON THE NATURE OF THINGS /; THE FIGURE OF VENUS: Rhetoric of the Ideal from Cabanel to Claude Cahun /; INTRA-VENUS /; VENUS AS MUSE: Toward a Poetics of Lust /; “THE MOST BLESSED GODDESS” VENUS AS THE ‘ALLY’ OF THE POET (IN) HEINRICH HEINE /; VENUS BACKWARDS: From Rimbaud to Ronsard /; NANA: VENUS A REBOURS: Paris of the Second Empire as the Return of Rome and Babylon /; THE TRANSIT OF VENUS /; VENUS BARBATA /; CLEOPATRA’S VENUS /; SAMUEL BECKETT’S ‘PEEPHOLE’ VENUS: Re-Sexualization, The Oral Mother, and the Masochist Contract in Eh Joe, Ghost Trio, and …but the clouds… /; VENUSIAN ECOSOPHY /; CONTRIBUTORS /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
• ISBN: 9004292535
• ISSN: 0929-6999
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Hanjo Berressem, Gunter Blamberger, Sebastian Goth ; cover illustration, Kathrin Roussel ; contributors, Elizabeth Asmis [and twelve others].

This volume deals with the enduring presence of one of Western culture's most fascinating and influential figures in ancient, modern, and postmodern art and literature: Venus/Aphrodite, the goddess of love, beauty, and sexuality. The collection, which is the first of its kind, seeks to explore Venus's significance as a figure of beauty and creativity across cultures and disciplines, engaging a range of media, theoretical approaches, and cultural perspectives. Thirteen international scholars—including Elisabeth Bronfen, Tom Conley, Laurence Rickels, and Barbara Vinken—illuminate Venus's lasting value as a multifaceted figure of the creative in Western culture, from Lucretius to Michel Serres.